The Bar Council of India has granted one-time conditional approval to over 100 Maharashtra law colleges for the 2026-27 session. The move allows eligible existing colleges to rejoin the MH CET LLB CAP process after completing required compliance procedures.

Maharashtra: In a major relief for law aspirants in Maharashtra, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has granted one-time conditional approval for the 2026–27 academic session to existing eligible Centres of Legal Education (CLEs) in the state, as per the official notice released on the website.

The decision is significant for colleges that were not part of the Common Admission Process (CAP) system when the first-round choice-filling process was underway.

The Indian Express reported that more than 100 of Maharashtra’s 357 law colleges were outside the approved list on the last day of choice filling. The BCI’s latest order allows existing eligible CLEs to participate in the ongoing admission process, subject to the prescribed conditions.

According to the BCI order, the one-time conditional approval has been granted in view of the ongoing centralised admission process for both three-year and five-year LLB programmes. The CAP Round-I option-form submission deadline is August 11, 2026.